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'Leners Patent No. 70,723, dma November 12, 1867.

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T0 AEL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. KINSLEY, of Stoughton, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Popping or Parohing Corn; and dolhereby declare the same to be fully described in the following speeiiieation, and represented in the accompanyingdrawing, which denotes a longitudinal section of it. i

In such drawing, A denotes a rectangular' box, made of woven wire, open at one end, and provided with a door, a, to such end, and being, atits other end, affixed to a handle, b. The door is hung on hinges atc, and has a. Wire, d, extending from it through the bar, and terminating in a coiled spring, e, and a loop,f. When the loop is hitched on a nail, g, driven into the handle, the tri're serves to hold the cover closed upon-'the end of the box. `Across the middle of the box A is a partition, B, which is perforated ivithholes oi' a size largo enough to allow the kernels of' eorn, before being perched, to pass through them, though not large enough to admit of suoli passage after they may have been parehed.

In using the corn-popper, the kernels oi' corn are to be put Ainto the space below the partition, and in this condition the popper'is to be placed over a tire. After a suicient number of the kernels may have been perched to till the space, the implement is vto-be turned over one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to cause the unparohed balanee of the kernels to fall throughthe partition into the other space or half of thetbox. This having been done, the box should beagain lplaced over the fire, so that the heat therefrom may strike directly upon the nnparehed kernels.

By constructing the box with the perforated partition there will be little or noA danger of burning the vparehed kernels, for as soon'as one-haii` of'the'box -mzty be filled, or abou-t so, the box may be turned over so as to remove the patched kernels from `the direct heat of the fire, endl cause it to strike on the unparched ones. The door, being at one end of the box, envers `the end ot'v the partition, and, when removed, exposes. either half of the box, in order'to enable corn tol be placed therein or removed therefrom.

I claim the corn-pepper, as made with the perforated divisional partition B, extended across its box A, of

woven wire, substantially as deseribed,-and for the purpose as specified.

EDWARD G. KINSLEYT Witnesses:

G. H. ANDREWS, F. P. Hann, Jr. 

